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Columbian exchange is the exchange of ideas, diseases, population and food following Christopher Columbus rediscover of the New World. Old World (Eastern Hemisphere) discovered metals, crops (potatoes, maize, tomatoes, cacao, chili peppers, peanuts, etc.). Now culinary centrepieces need those ingredients to get cooked (Indian, Korean, Mediterranean, Hungarian, Malaysian, Thai food). Transmission of diseases to isolated communities for which didn’t have immunity. Black Death (14 th cent.), typhus, cholera, etc. On the home return, Europeans brought syphilis. Direct impact on other world regions: Africa and Asia. Exploration and colonization of this regions, because of the discovery of a treatment against malaria. Also, abduction of African people to become slaves, due to the big death of native Americans (12 million slaves 16 th – 19 th cent.). Potatoes introduce on the Old World 🡪 Increasing population and urbanism. Increased availability of sugar made English welfare to ...